{"id":611,"slug":"yellow-dog-village-worthington-pennsylvania","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Yellow Dog is the named — the 'contract' that's the union's ban, the 'wore proudly' that's the insult's flip. The 'company built' is the bound — the 'limestone' that's the mine's product, the 'housing for silence' that's the deal's terms. The 'wells tainted' is the ended — the 'bacteria' that's the water's kill, the '2011' that's the last's out.","The 'toys left' is the fled — the 'hastily' that's the leave's mark, the 'furniture' that's the rooms' keep. The 'farm buyers' is the found — the 'didn't know' that's the purchase's shock, the 'camper lived' that's the restore's start. Yellow Dog is the opened — the 'open house' that's the access's form, the 'residents return' that's the stories' source.","The file keeps Yellow Dog: the named insult, the bound housing, the tainted wells, and the fled toys.","Yellow Dog Village is the archive's Pennsylvania file — the town named for the contract that banned unions."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Yellow Dog Village is the archive's Pennsylvania file — the village that wore its insult as a name.","A village keeps its contract — the file's suggestion being that Yellow Dog's hold is the named: the 'yellow dog' that's the union's ban, the 'wells tainted' that's the end's cause, and the 'toys left' that's the flee's mark."]}],"name":"Yellow Dog Village","aliases":[],"type":"FORMER_COMPANY_TOWN","type_label":"Former Company Town","cats":["GHOST_TOWN"],"groups":["ghost-towns"],"desc":"Former mining-company housing preserved by private owners.","full_desc":"Yellow Dog Village is a former company town in Worthington, Pennsylvania. Former mining-company housing preserved by private owners. The operator traces the village to Pittsburgh Limestone Corporation housing in the 1920s and connects its name to anti-union employment agreements. Industrial decline and well-water problems contributed to abandonment.","address":"105 Mak Square Ext","city":"Worthington","county":"Armstrong","state":"Pennsylvania","postal":null,"region":"Northeast","lat":40.837987,"lon":-79.635032,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"RESTRICTED","access_notes":"Book an authorized tour or contact owners; property also serves as a working family farm.","ownership":null,"website":"https://yellowdogvillage.com/","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Private farm and heritage-tour property","research_notes":"Discovery/enrichment pass; geographic coordinates and current visitor conditions remain to be independently verified. Evidence confidence refers to attribution, not paranormal reality.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":65,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"The operator traces the village to Pittsburgh Limestone Corporation housing in the 1920s and connects its name to anti-union employment agreements. Industrial decline and well-water problems contributed to abandonment. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Village History' carry the record. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Village History","url":"https://yellowdogvillage.com/villagehistory","publisher":"Yellow Dog Village","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Operator advertises bookable visits and camping","reservation_requirement":"Contact operator or book a tour","last_verified_at":"2026-09-14T10:36:20+00:00","source":{"name":"Yellow Dog Village","url":"https://yellowdogvillage.com/","publisher":"Yellow Dog Village","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Village History","url":"https://yellowdogvillage.com/villagehistory","publisher":"Yellow Dog Village","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2},{"name":"Yellow Dog Village","url":"https://yellowdogvillage.com/","publisher":"Yellow Dog Village","type":"OFFICIAL_SITE","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":2}}